Instructor: Gloria Wallis
Academy of Fine Arts in Venice
HISTORY OF CONTEMPORARY
a) Félix González-Torres
E 'was born in Cuba was born November 26, 1957, and grew up in Puerto Rico. He attended the University of Porto Rico, and the International Center of Photography in New York.
Passionate about teaching, he worked as a visiting artist at a number of prestigious universities and art schools. After his first solo all'Andrea Rosen Gallery in 1990, Gonzalez-Torres's career has soared, to make him one of the stars of the contemporary art scene. It 'died of AIDS in Miami Beach January 9, 1996.
His work has been the subject of numerous solo exhibitions in major museums around the world. Retrospective was organized by the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York (1995), from the Sprengel Museum in Hannover, Germany (1997), the Serpentine Gallery in London (2000), the FLAG Art Foundation in New York (2009), by WIELS, Fondation Beyeler and the Museum für Moderne Kunst in Frankfurt in 2010-2011.
In 2007, he was the second artist in history which has been given a posthumous exhibition at the U.S. Pavilion at the Venice Biennale.
The only other posthumous U.S. representative was Robert Smithson in 1982.
Influenced by Minimalism, creates installations with minimal objects such as light bulbs, paper, and candy, removed from the public. He calls himself a "process" artist, for interactions with the public modify the structure of its facilities.
Some of his works allow visitors to take away candy from a pile in a corner of the room, with other thin sheets of clear plastic or prints in the series. The piles are supplied not only their content decreases.
In 1991 he exhibited an egg filled with 315 kg of licorice candies in the shape of the projectile, showing its position on the Gulf War, while one of his most famous works, Untitled, 1992, is a billboard that appeared in New York black and white photography of an empty bed, taken after death from AIDS of his partner Ross, who died in 1991.
In an interview, the artist said: "Love gives you a reason to live, but it is also a cause for panic, there is always fear of losing that love .(...) Freud said we stage our fears to decrease. In a sense, this generosity-the refusal to form a static, monolithic sculpture, in favor of a form fragile, unstable-it was a way to put on my fear of losing Ross, who disappeared little by little before my eyes. "
At his homosexuality was given a symbolic value that has stimulated the meaning "Political" in his works.
In fact, Gonzalez Torres often creates works in which the theme is love and the couple: happiness, the risk of losing it, mourning the death of a spouse or life partner.
His works without contours, from which anyone can take part until they disappear, they are often considered a symbol of the loss of boundaries of self which in essence means love, and the decline and loss of self that is instead death.
Untitled (Perfect Lovers) in 1991, is a pair of stopped clocks at the same time, Untitled 1991, are two pillows on an unmade bed with even the sign of a body; Untitled (March 5th) # 1 1991, two mirrors are placed side by side.
In another interview, said:-When people ask me who is my audience, I answer honestly, without getting around, "Ross." My public was Ross. The rest is just people who come to see the work ".
* 1. Félix González-Torres, Untitled (for Stockholm), 1992.
15-watt bulbs, electric cords, porcelain lamp holders. The installation dimensions vary according to the site.
http://www.andrearosengallery.com/artists/felix-gonzalez-torres/ #
2. Untitled (1992). Offset paper, indeterminate number copies. Height 7 inches (ideal) x 45 ¼ x 38 ½
* 3. Untitled (Loverboy), 1989. Clear blue cloth and bring sticks. Sizes vary depending on location.
Bibliography
http://www.andrearosengallery.com/artists/felix-gonzalez-torres/
http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/F% C3% A9lix_Gonz% C3% A1lez Torres-
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F% C3% A9lix_Gonz% C3% A1lez-Torres
http://www.veneziasi.it/content/view/?id=550&Itemid=460&lang=it
http://www.queerculturalcenter.org/Pages/FelixGT/FelixIndex.html
b) Elaine Sturtevant
Elaine Sturtevant, American artist born in 1930 in Lakewood, Ohio, will attend the International Exhibition of Venice Biennale 54.a, and both the festival and Praise of Doubt by Caroline Bourgeois at the Punta della Dogana , with an installation that duplicates a work of Felix Gonzales Torres, and the Infinite Exaustion video installation, 2007, depicting a dog running at breakneck speed.
E 'known for creating copies meticulously reconstructed, indistinguishable from the originals, other artists, including Andy Warhol, Marcel Duchamp, Joseph Beuys, Frank Stella, Felix Gonzalez-Torres. This
his practice, of course, much debated, question the "Value of fetish object 's contemporary art.
Bibliography
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elaine_Sturtevant
https: / / farticulate.wordpress.com/2010/12/23/23-december-2010-post-elaine-sturtevant-selected -installations-interview /
http://denniscooper-theweaklings.blogspot.com/2010/02/artist-elaine-sturtevants-fastidious.html
http://www.moreeuw.com/histoire-art/exposition-elaine -Sturtevant-paris.htm
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